AtHoc Wins International Stevie Award for Its Innovation in Physical Security and Public Safety Market

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - July 13, 2009) - AtHoc, Inc., the pioneer and leader in network-centric emergency notification systems, today announced it has won an International Stevie Award for "Most Innovative Company of the Year in North America" in the 2009 International Business Awards for its innovation in the Physical Security and Public Safety market.

The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business. Nicknamed the Stevie® for the Greek word "crowned," the awards will be presented to winners at a gala dinner on Monday, September 14 in the St. Regis Hotel in New York City.

Recipients of International Stevie Award trophies were selected from more than 1,700 entries received from organizations and individuals in more than 30 countries. The International Business Awards feature more than 40 categories, from Multinational Company of the Year and Best New Product of the Year to Most Innovative Company of the Year and Executive of the Year.

"Our team has debuted third-generation mass notification systems (MNS) that quickly and effectively alert thousands of people during an emergency," said David Box, head of marketing for AtHoc. "AtHoc's IWSAlerts™ is employed for force protection, personnel accountability, installation alerting, public safety and critical communications. This International Business Award recognizes our important work in protecting lives and property, and we are honored to receive the award recognizing our innovation in the field of physical security and public safety."

Enterprises and organization which already deployed a first-generation MNS, such as sirens and PA systems, and which also may have used a second-generation hosted service for mass text messaging and phone calling, immediately experienced a lack of cohesiveness, increased complexity and long periods of time required to sign-in and operate all of these siloed capabilities in times of emergency.

As a result, AtHoc pioneered the use of the IP network as the most effective channel for disseminating alerts and managing the emergency notification process. AtHoc's alert management capabilities unify and manage emergency notifications across all types of delivery channels and devices, including alerts to computers, desk phones, mobile phones, pagers, PDAs and e-mail. The Web-based system also integrates with sirens and public address systems as well as the national Emergency Alert System (EAS).

By creating a unified and redundant multichannel alerting system, emergency operators drastically reduce the time to disseminate alerts and provide a consistent message across all channels. With its enterprise capabilities, AtHoc IWSAlerts provides a management system that controls all capabilities across the underlying delivery systems from notification, scenarios, permissions, user contact information and alert tracking.

"Despite the harsh economic climate, entries to the IBAs actually grew a bit this year, and that illustrates the increasing importance of The International Business Awards (IBAs) worldwide," said Michael Gallagher, president of The Stevie Awards, presenters of the IBAs. "We congratulate all of the finalists and International Stevie Awards winners."

Complete lists of honorees and other details are available at www.stevieawards.com/iba.

About The Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

About AtHoc

AtHoc is the pioneer and recognized leader in providing enterprise-class, network-centric emergency notification systems to military, government and commercial organizations. AtHoc's products are used for physical security, force protection, personnel accountability, recall and regulatory compliance. Millions of end users worldwide, in organizations such as the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, NASA, Microsoft, Boeing and PricewaterhouseCoopers, rely on AtHoc's unified management systems for their emergency alerting and critical communication needs. AtHoc has partnered with market leaders including Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, Harris, Siemens, Avaya, Lockheed Martin and others to bring these notification solutions to the public and commercial markets.

For more information on AtHoc, please visit http://www.athoc.com.

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